Happy Cherry Ripe Strawberry Activities {Virtual Majority Enterprise Summertime Camp}
December 28, 2018
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Since it is fauna week... you're in all probability wondering why today's post is almost strawberries. Keep reading to run across why.
Have you lot read Don & Audrey Wood's book The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry, as well as the Big Hungry Bear?
We LOVE the piddling mouse as well as he LOVES strawberries... hence today nosotros decided to pretend to live the piddling mouse
1. Played a "strawberry seed" pick upward game.
2. Practiced cutting strawberries inwards one-half as well as sharing "half amongst me as well as one-half amongst you."
3. Did a strawberry hunt as well as tried to give-up the ghost along the strawberry hidden from the large hungry bear.
We LOVE the piddling mouse as well as he LOVES strawberries... hence today nosotros decided to pretend to live the piddling mouse 
and produce a few strawberry related activities.
As a piddling mouse we...
1. Played a "strawberry seed" pick upward game.
2. Practiced cutting strawberries inwards one-half as well as sharing "half amongst me as well as one-half amongst you."
3. Did a strawberry hunt as well as tried to give-up the ghost along the strawberry hidden from the large hungry bear.
To produce these activities you lot take away the next materials...
- chocolate chips/beans
- red as well as light-green cardstock
- scissors
- tape (to stick strawberry pieces together)
- plastic knife
- strawberries
- plate (or 2)
- tongs
- marker
- strawberry printable (optional)
1. Strawberry Seed Pick Up Game
For this action you lot outset take away to brand a large strawberry! You tin either role the printable linked higher upward or but hand-draw your ain onto colored cardstock.
Next you lot take away to cutting upward some cardstock into piddling cards. Write a release on each menu 1-10 as well as set them all inwards a large pile.
Once your strawberry as well as cards are made... you lot tin start playing!
Flip over a menu from your pile. Read the release aloud. Add that release of "seeds" (chocolate chips or beans) to your strawberry using your tongs. These tongs
are a chip easier to role than the tongs nosotros had, but both work.
are a chip easier to role than the tongs nosotros had, but both work. Once you lot complete i card, clear off the strawberry. Tell your kid they tin live the Big Hungry Bear as well as consume a few chocolate chips... as well as and then flip over some other menu as well as start again!
This is an splendid action to function on hand-eye coordination as well as educate fine motor skills piece too practicing release recognition as well as 1:1 correspondence. Little ones could skip the tongs as well as but role their piddling fingers to pinch the chocolate chips as well as motion them onto the strawberry.
2. Sharing Strawberries
My daughter's favorite line of piece of employment in The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry, as well as the Big Hungry Bear is "cut it inwards ii as well as part one-half amongst me as well as one-half amongst you" (or something unopen to that).
We decided to practise some cutting skills amongst our plastic knives as well as function on cutting strawberries inwards half!
We talked almost how to concord the strawberry as well as knife piece cutting. I was shocked to realize that my v twelvemonth quondam didn't know how to cutting amongst a knife really well. I had never shown him!
After a quick tutorial he was cutting strawberries inwards one-half similar an expert. My ii twelvemonth quondam too had fun exploring amongst her (very safe) plastic knife as well as cutting her strawberries into piddling pieces.
After the kids did some cutting, they gave a slice of strawberry to themselves as well as shared a slice of strawberry amongst each other!
3. Hide the Strawberry from the BIG Hungry Bear!
For this action i kid pretended to live the BIG hungry demeanor piece the other kid pretended live the mouse who was frantically trying to enshroud the strawberry.
The "mouse" rapidly hid the giant strawberry as well as and then the other kid got to pretend to live the demeanor as well as hunt around for it.
We honey hunts! (even when the toddler hides the strawberry inwards the same location every fourth dimension :))
Have you lot done whatever favorite strawberry activities? What almost mouse or hungry demeanor activities?
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